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Interactive
Fiction Online Archive
Play some of the best text adventures around without leaving the comfort
of your browser. Requires Java.
IF
and a MUD
There's an online community filled with fans of interactive fiction and
the occasional quest. Have you been there yet?
Adventure
Games Live
Samuel Stoddard has written a CGI engine for playing adventure games. You
select options from menus, though the range of choices is usually more
complex than your standard Choose-Your-Own-Adventure.
Adventure
on the Web
The original Colossal Cave adventure, playable on the web! The adaption
was done by Tom Wu, and is a good one.
Clicking
Anastasia
A web game in which you attempt to unearth the Romanov fortune.
Crime
Scene
Tom Arriola's site lets you help solve crimes. Though it is more of a
"collaborative fiction" site, it's well-done and should appeal
to fans of detective IF.
The
Explore Adventure Series
A long time ago, Joe Peterson created a simple text adventure system
called "Explore", which was written using BASIC and an old
TRS-80. Now Joe has ported it to Java, so that you can play them from the
comfort of your own browser.
The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams has made his famous Infocom text adventure playable on the
web for anyone with a Java-enabled browser.
IAGE
Demo
The Internet Adventure Game Engine includes an online demo of the system.
Interactive
Fiction Playground
Another repository of z-code text adventures which you can play thanks to
ZPlet. This archive is maintained by Curt Siffert. Note that this version
of ZPlet allows you to save and restore games.